Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.